Your Farm
A stylish first board book, perfect to gift babies and toddlers aged 0-3 from Jon Klassen, bestselling creator of I Want My Hat Back
From the bestselling Jon Klassen, Your Farm is one in a trio of casebound board books perfect for sharing and gifting to the youngest of children.
This is a farm for a young child to have whenever they want to go there. With familiar objects and a gentle rhythm suited for reading aloud, a farm and all its items – a horse and its hay, a truck, a stool, a fence – are assembled, ending with bedtime as the sun goes down. One in a trio of board books focussing on safe spaces, comfort and imagination.
Praise for Your Forest: "A comforting board book about imagination and safe spaces from the legendary author of I Want My Hat Back that creates a charming forest from a handful of familiar objects." - Waterstones
"Full of the usual Klassen charm, young children will enjoy the simple and straightforward way this book is written, while adults will appreciate the deadpan humour." - The Scotsman
Discover more of Your Places:
Your Forest
Your Island
Collect Your Things:
Your Truck
Your Horse
Creators
Jon Klassen is the creator of the Your Places board book series, including Your Farm, Your Forest, and Your Island, and the Your Things board book series, including Your Truck and Your Horse. He is the author and illustrator of the #1 New York Times bestselling I Want My Hat Back, which won a Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor, and its companions This Is Not My Hat, which won a Caldecott Medal and a Kate Greenaway Medal, and We Found a Hat, named a Publishers Weekly Best Children’s Book of the Year. He is also the creator of The Rock from the Sky and The Skull and the illustrator of Extra Yarn, Sam and Dave Dig a Hole, Triangle, Square, and Circle, all by Mac Barnett. Originally from Niagara Falls, Ontario, Jon Klassen now lives in Los Angeles.
Reviews
Full of the usual Klassen charm, young children will enjoy the simple and straightforward way this book is written, while the adults will appreciate the deadpan humour.
The Scotsman
Sweet gentle, and unmistakably Klassen.
The Bookseller
[Jon Klassen] creates spaces in which children can imagine themselves […] The simplicity of the artwork makes way for the wonderful humour: it’s all in the eyes!
Juno Magazine
In a new series of bedtime board books for children ages 2-5, he has kept the dry humor but skipped the darkness, and the result is pure delight.
Wall Street Journal
A simultaneously empowering and instructive bedtime tale.
Kirkus Review (starred review)
